Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 17/07/2026The Egerton model can read the will hand pretty accurately. 100
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 02/06/2026withe thys admonycyon that he Come no more to that house. for the house ys ordeynyd for no Suche" TNA E 133/1/47. 000
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 02/06/2026And yf yt fortune Any man havyn the Countenance of honestye, And yet in dede knowen to be but Symple presume to place hym selfe amonge the worshippfull & honeste, when he shall pay for hys meale as the other doo, he hathe hys money Gevyn hym a Gayne, And hys meale ffrely, ... 110
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 02/06/2026London gentlemen's club ca 1565: "And in the same house dothe kepe certeyne tables for men of worship & Gentylmen to eate for xij A meale. And also lodgynge aswell for noble men, men of worship as for Gentyllmen. And not for euery meane & Common person. ... 110
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Yes, regal dating of a court pleading after Charles I’s execution. 010
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Is this normal dating post Charles I's death? "vpon an Informacion exhibited in the Court of Exchequer the thirteenth day of May in the fower and twentith yeare of the raigne of the late kinge Charles ... taken before ... the Court of the Publique Exchequer the last day of November Anno Domini 1649. 121
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 21/02/2026If you look at early 17th-century Chancery affidavits, there are plenty of stories of violence involved in serving a subpoena. Not murder, but lots of beatings. 010
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 23/11/2025I have never allowed laptops. I now allow tablets but only if the student write on them and they remain flat on the table—this incidentally also eliminated accommodations requests, though that wasn’t why I did it. 110
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 23/09/2025I have a simple lexicon of the words in my corpus of 16th and early 17th century words from primarily equity court material they we used to build our secretary hand transcription model. 110
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 19/09/2025I do enjoy filling out UK forms where I can declare that my address is in the county of Illinois. 010
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 11/09/2025AI can prep them for an oral exam even on something they have not read. 120
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 11/09/2025I teach law, and we require the students to read cases for every class. I cold call, so they do not know when they will be called on about a case. And this year I told them that one question on the exam will be a case analysis. I hope that is motivation to learn to read cases. 020
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 27/08/2025I love Fahrenheit. It is more sensitive than Celsius. At certain points in the temperature range there are 3 degrees Fahrenheit for every degree Celsius. That's a big range. 110
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 27/08/2025My Transkribus model "Egerton" can give you highly accurate transcriptions if this is a representative sample of the hand. For more info see: sites.northwestern.edu/egerton/sites.northwestern.eduEgerton | An AI model for secretary hand 100
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 30/07/2025The @transkribus.bsky.social "Egerton: English Secretary Hand" model is now public! app.transkribus.org/models/publi.... We have a website with sample transcriptions for different hands, information about our training conventions, and more: sites.northwestern.edu/egerton/ 14020
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Honestly, I could not be more surprised at how well Egerton is transcribing what I find to be the worst, most unreadable hand in the equity court files. I thought we would get to maybe 8% CER with this hand. Instead we are just over 3%. Egerton reads it better than I can! 030
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Egerton is now ready for its public debut with a 2.89% average CER and over 1 million words. Once we have our informational website ready to go, we will submit it to @transkribus.bsky.social for publication. 040
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Just pushed the button on running the Egerton model for the last time before we make it public. We hit 1.1 million words in the training data and 126,000 in the verification set. This has been three years in the making, but it's a great model and really accurate. @transkribus.bsky.social 0133
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Record keeping in 1592: "it is also well knowne vnto this Court that her maiesties recordes be in good saftie & not so kept as that they doe or can come vnto thandes of any her highnes Subiectes other then the officers vnto whose charge & safe custodie the same are comitted..." TNA E 112/27/241. 020
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Posts about the Egerton secretary hand model can also be found @egerton.bsky.social 000
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Apparently the "Egerton" model really likes this hand. Less than 2% errors, and many of those errors were of punctuation or a doubled letter (Egerton's glitch). We should be making this secretary hand model public on @transkribus.bsky.social next month. 031
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 04/06/2025... and the Trawlers and Trinckers they do stand more vpp in the ffreshe water in the Ryver of Thames and they take Soles and playse and thorne backes and suceltes and buttes and such like fyshe." @thames21.bsky.social, @londonmuseum.bsky.social 3/3 000
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 04/06/2025... for he sayeth the stalbotes stand vppon the Sea to take whightinges and sprattes and that the kedles otherwise Called Tymbers they stand within the Ryver of Theames and not vppon the Sea as Stalbotes do and they take Sprattes and whightinges also ... 2/3 100
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 04/06/2025From the deposition of a Middlesex fisherman in 1595, in a suit in Exchequer involving a customary fee alleged to have been paid by Thames fisherman (TNA E 133/8/1176): "he sayeth there is greate difference betwene Stalbottes and keddles Trawlers and Trynckers ... 1/3 100
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 26/05/2025E 133/3/381: "Charnocke said to Barker, 'what pratinge makest thou for ye Charges of a Cote, & the Apparell thow chargest me withall. ffor I coulde (sayd Charnocke) wype thy nose of all the lande thou haste' with many other Sharpe woordes wherewith the said Barker helde his peace and sayd nothinge." 000
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Thanks to Northwestern Pritzker Law for writing about the Egerton secretary hand model on @transkribus.bsky.social news.law.northwestern.edu/decoding-the...news.law.northwestern.eduDecoding the Past: Professor Emily Kadens uses Artificial Intelligence to bring 16th-Century Law to Life - Northwestern Pritzker School of Law NewsWhat happens when 16th-century legal documents meet artificial intelligence? Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law’s Edna B. and Ednyfed H. Williams Memorial Professor and Vice Dean Emily Kad... 012
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 14/05/2025If you study the early modern history of London's streets, houses, inns, etc., the Chancery depositions (TNA C 24) are a rich source. The @transkribus.bsky.social "Egerton" secretary hand model found this interesting discussion of a house in the Poultrie in an interrogatory in C 24/249 box 1. 000
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 09/05/2025You could also get an assist from the "Egerton" secretary hand model on @transkribus.bsky.social which is available on request (from me) now and publicly available later in the summer. It handled this document with over 97% accuracy. 001
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 31/03/2025"... the defendant dyd not strike any stroke in that affray nor dyd se any stroke stryken by any persone ..." We're training out @transkribus.bsky.social model "Egerton" to read this hand. Should be near 90% accuracy after the next model run. 111
Reposted by Emily KadensJonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 24/03/2025‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’ 8939731048
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Didn't Egerton write something critical about Coke's report of Calvin's Case in "Lord Chancellor Egerton's Observations on the Lord Coke's Reports"? 000
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Say I had four days and a car and wanted to see the best, most interesting, and most beautiful of any of Devonshire, Cornwall, and/or Wales, where specifically should I go? 100
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 17/03/2025And the said George Answeered that yt would haue ben smale to his Credit And Imediately therevpon the said George standinge bare headed by the said Thomas He the said Thomas drewe out his dagger & strake the said George over the head several tymes .... 000
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 17/03/2025called him the said George vnto him and sayd Sirra I heare saye thou hast Served a subpoena on mye father which said George sayd he had done wherevpon the said Thomas sayd yf I had ben there I would haue made thee either to haue eaten yt or carry ytt away agayne 100
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 17/03/2025From the Chancery entry book C 33/91: "George Walwyn hath made oth That after he had Served a subpoena att the dwellinge howse of the said Turvyle at the plaintiffes suyte One Thomas Turvyle sonne to the said Edwarde beinge in the high waye neere to the said plaintiffes howse 100
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 15/02/2025whereas indeed she was well advised what she sayd, speaking nothing but what she knew most assuredly. [A]ll which matter … she Could not gett the same sett downe by the Comissioners according to the truth. 020
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 15/02/2025& that when she wold have deposed so much before the Comissioners, one of the Comissioners named master Onyon crossed her & bad her take heed what she sayd for sure they were no deedes but obligacions & therfore she was deceyved ... 120
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Mansplaining in the 16th century: he saieth there was one, a woman ffrances Browne, who kept the evidences of the said Michaell Steede. & she Confessed to this deponent that she had in keeping of michaell Steedes 2 deedes & one will, ... 130
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Interesting probatio pennae on the back of a Chancery deposition from 1592. Seems to be part of the oath of the court examiner. 050
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Could absolutely be a bored Chancery clerk, but more likely roughly contemporaneous to the generation of the document rather than later just because of unlikelihood that the document was laying around later. 030
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 12/01/2025That would be quite odd. Who would have picked up a random, filed Chancery interrogatory and started drawing on it, especially since it is not detached from the accompanying depositions? 230
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Found this on the back of an interrogatory in C 24/273 from 1599. The case is about a potentially fraudulent bond caused to be drawn up by a widow in Leigh, Kent. But this looks like a street map rather than a random doodle. Any ideas? 21510
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Latest "Egerton" model run has us just under 3% CER and over 800,000 words in the training set. We are aiming for a late spring public release with over 1 million words. Anyone expert in the awful STAC 5 deposition hands who wants to help correct transcriptions? 020
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Obviously doesn't happen often, but very exciting when it does. 020
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Not a difficult script, but still, the @transkribus.bsky.social results we are getting in our "Egerton" secretary hand model are impressive. 082
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 08/12/2024My secretary hand model is already quite good on your 17th-century wills. With about 30 pages added to my dataset, the model would be excellent. 130
